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Tips – Hunting Techniques

A collection of useful tips around hunting.

Hunting Techniques

Big game

High seat – Wild habituation

If you have fixed perches, you can tie an old cloth or garment to the legs or handrails of the perch during the off-season. That way the game gets used to movement around the perch and won’t immediately look up and be startled when something moves during the hunt. Maybe just that little bit more time you need to properly set up and hit.

Small game and Other game

Pigeon hunting – flight

In pigeon hunting, it is important to have “flight.” Pigeons that remain at their resting place and do not come for the guns cannot be shot. On a larger hunting day, flight is created by the various guns posted in the hunting field. But how do you do this if you are alone or in pairs ?

This hunting tip will help you do just that.

We do not allow the pigeons to rest by making noise close to their roosting place. And this can be done through popping fireworks. Either you buy it prepared (with bangs every 1/2 hour) or you craft it yourself by attaching the fireworks to a piece of thick cotton thread that smolders and ignites a cartridge of fireworks each time.Just be careful where you hang it, not too close to a public road or walkway, and also not above flammable material (dry leaves) the exploding cartridges can be a fire hazard.
And then just wait for the pigeons to move.

Combat Techniques

Mouse burrow – Control Fox

A Mouse Burrow is like a Fox Burrow is the family home, but of mice. And since these are quite favored by foxes, you can fight with these efficiently.

First of all, you need to know which predators are in the hunting grounds. And, if there is a suitable tree, in which a perch can be placed, in the vicinity of the place where you want to erect the castle, you can also, possibly, sit on the fox.

A “mouse burrow” is made as follows: In a dry place, preferably near a path along-or through-a forest(s)’ you dig a bowl-shaped pit, from which about five or six buckets of soil come out. You then fill that pit with thick blocks of stone, pieces of wood, paper wrappers, fabric scraps . ., until it reaches ground level again.

Then three bricks or blocks of wood, are placed in the middle on which a tube of at least 60 to cm length, is placed upright. Then you continue to fill around the tube with the same filling material as is already in the pit. Finally, over the mound, a piece of plastic sheeting is placed, of about one square meter, against penetrating rain, and then over it all, sod is laid.

In the tube, every two weeks, drop some cereal grains, between the three bricks. After a month or two (depending on the season), mice have already installed themselves. You can see that at the bottom edge of the pile, or you can “smell it, at the top of the tube.” .

Then place in the square, around the fortress, a 100cm high sparrow wire, about 20 cm below the ground and clean the area around, about 40 cm wide’ neatly, so that you can see the prints or tracks of the Predators, who, attracted by the mice, come to walk around it.
If necessary, a layer of sand is sprinkled around the sparrow wire to “read” the prints and tracks even better.

By fall evening in the nearby tree, sit on it with the rifle – Especially if a fox comes, that has its charm.
A well-built mouse burrow “works” for years!

– Thanks to our old Fox, Leon –

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